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			<h1>Securing my sanctuary</h1>
			<p>Day 00922: <time>Thursday, 2017 September 14</time></p>
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		I was planning to tell my mother to stay out of my bedroom this time.
		I won&apos;t be here to protect my bedroom (as she&apos;s requested a key to my place and can come and go while I&apos;m at work), and I don&apos;t want her trying to store her stuff in the one room I want kept to myself.
		I found a better way though.
		A way I can feel safer and send a very clear message at the same time.
		I&apos;m going to replace the doorknob with one that locks.
		One with a different key than my front door (not that I&apos;d be able to match the two locks to the same key even if I wanted to).
		She <strong>*will*</strong> stay out.
		My second request of her was and will be that she not store any dry goods here.
		If I have to, I&apos;ll explain how she infested my place with moths, but I&apos;d rather just leave it at &quot;don&apos;t bring that stuff in here&quot;.
		I thought I might not be able to get a lockable doorknob complete with key second-hand in such short notice though.
		I thought I might have to buy a new one.
		The parent of the on-site manager saw me as I headed out though, and asked if I was headed to work.
		I said I needed to hit up the second hand shop, then I&apos;d head to work.
		They asked what I was looking for, and oops, I told them I was looking for shorts for work and a doorknob.
		She asked what was wrong with my current doorknob, so I explained about my mother moving, wanting to store boxes at my place, and not being able to accept she can&apos;t store stuff in my bedroom.
		I said I needed a way to lock her out of my bedroom without locking her out of my apartment.
		I thought my plan would end there.
		I wasn&apos;t sure I was actually <strong>*allowed*</strong> to install a lock.
		However, they actually gave me a locking doorknob that they already had.
		Sweet!
		That save me time and money, and I now no longer have to hide what I was doing.
		However ... when I tried to install it, I ran into issues.
		First, I hadn&apos;t noticed that non-locking doorknobs have less of plate on the latching mechanism.
		To get a locking doorknob on this door, I&apos;ll need to chisel away some of the wood, permanently altering the door.
		That&apos;s stepping into a real grey to black area, as it&apos;s not my door to alter.
		I need to feel safe though.
		Second, the latching mechanism won&apos;t even come out.I think someone wood glues the thing in, and I can&apos;t break it loose.
		Even if I decided to go ahead with this plan, I don&apos;t have the means.
		I&apos;m going to need to <strong>*replace the whole door*</strong>.
		These surprise expenses are really eating at my tiny budget.
		I guess I&apos;ll go to Bring Recycling tomorrow and look for a door.
		Ugh.
		Who am I kidding?
		This door&apos;s an unusual size.
		In fact, every door in the apartment is a differing width; no two doors here are alike!
		I won&apos;t find a door that fits this doorway.
		I need to find a way to get the latching mechanism out.
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		The on-site manager&apos;s parent gave me the doorknob knowing full well what I planned to do with it.
		I think that counts as implicit permission to install it, right?
		I talked to a friend today too, and they said apartment managers don&apos;t usually mind modifications of their buildings as long as they&apos;re upgrades.
		And adding the ability to lock the door is definitely an upgrade.
		If it&apos;s something the next tenant isn&apos;t interested in, they can simply not use that particular feature of the door.
		That same friend recommended I not even give my mother a key to my apartment in the first place though.
		I might take that advice.
		And if I don&apos;t, and my mother asks about my locked bedroom, I&apos;ll certainly mention that my friend advised against letting her in at all, let alone let them into the entire apartment without so much as a single place to myself.
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		This week&apos;s <span title="Web Programming 1">CS 2205</span> work is severely disappointing.
		For starters, last week&apos;s learning journal assignment was similar to some past learning journal assignments in it&apos;s open-ended-ness.
		Past open-ended learning journal assignments have repeated for the duration of the course, so I falsely assumed this one would too.
		Not so much.
		There&apos;s no learning journal assignment at all this week.
		Second, we&apos;re required to use a specific Web service to build a five-page website.
		This service doesn&apos;t even allow access to the <abbr title="Extensible Hypertext Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> of the pages you build, instead requiring you to use a graphical Web editor.
		Ew.
		You have to start off with a template they provide, then attempt to tweak it the way you want it using their interface.
		In addition to the ugliness and inflexibility, I also fear the copyright issues associated with their templates and what action they might take if they found out I was archiving a copy of the site I build with their service on my own site.
		Thankfully, I found a completely-blank template they have.
		I can start mostly from scratch.
		Then before I archive it, I can strip any comments in the code that would claim they own my creation (if I&apos;m starting with a blank page and using none of their images or text, they shouldn&apos;t be claiming my website anyway), then clean up the <abbr title="Extensible Hypertext Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> which will no doubt not meet strict validation standards.
		It&apos;s an imperfect solution, but it&apos;ll work.
		I think.
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